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Sundance Pic ‘Miss Juneteenth’ To Hit Screens In June With Vertical Entertainment Deal
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deadline.comBy Patrick Hipes Executive Managing Editor EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Miss Juneteenth, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and later won an award at SXSW in March.
The pic, the debut feature of writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples, is now aimed at a June 19 release, that date marking the 155th anniversary of the Juneteenth holiday.
Vertical is hoping for a theatrical release depending on the status of theaters amid the current coronavirus pandemic, but aims to bow the film on digital on the American holiday, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation — a celebration that includes an annual
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